Contact Information:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Wehrle RWTH Aachen University Distributed Systems Group Chair of Computer Science IV Room E1-4225 (Informatikzentrum) Ahornstraße 55 52062 Aachen / Germany Phone: +49 241 / 80-21430 Fax: + 49 241 / 80-22220 Klaus.Wehrle @ rwth-aachen.de

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News

• I am supporting the following activities. Please consider supporting them:
  • Initiative "Zukunft Wissenschaft"
  • Junge Informatik: "Bonner Thesen"
• Please, consider a participation in the following events, in which the DS team is involved:
  • GI Research Seminar "Modeling Techniques for Computer Network Simulations", Schloss Dagstuhl, April 14th-18th, 2008
  • ACM Sigcomm 2008, August 17-22, 2008, Seattle, USA
  • IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, September 8-11th, 2008, Aachen, Germany
  • RWTH Aachen Children University: "How does the Internet work?", September 21st, 2007, RWTH Audimax, Aachen
  • UMIC Day -- Open House of the Excellence Cluster "Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication", October 16th, 2007, RWTH Aachen University
• In 2007, Klaus was awarded "Junior Researcher of the Year" (Nachwuchswissenschaftler des Jahres) by the German Association of Professors and Die Zeit.

Short Bio

Klaus started his studies in Computer Science (Informatik) at University of Karlsruhe in 1993, and graduated with the Diploma degree "Dipl.-Inform." (with honors) in March 1999. Then, he joined the Institute of Telematics (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Gerhard Krüger) at University of Karlsruhe as research assistant. In July 2002 he received his doctoral degree (with honors) for his dissertation on flexible and scalable quality-of-service mechanisms for the next generation Internet, which was awarded with the 2002 Doctoral Dissertation Award of Südwestmetall Association and the 2002 FZI Doctoral Dissertation Award (German Research Center for Information Technologie, FZI).

Supported by a grant from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Klaus and his family moved to Berkeley/California in August 2002, where he joined the ICIR networking group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) as postdoctoral fellow in the area of Peer-to-Peer networking and overlay networks. Attracted by an Emmy-Noether-Grant from German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Klaus came back to Germany in September 2003 to set up an independant junior research group in the area of Protocol-Engineering and Distributed Systems at University of Tübingen. This support was part of Emmy-Noether-Program of DFG. The junior research group got additional funding from Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg and Microsoft Research. Since April 2006, Klaus is professor of Computer Science (Distributed Systems) at RWTH Aachen University. In November 2007, Klaus was awarded Junior Researcher of the year 2007 by the German Association of Professors.

Klaus is a member of IEEE, ACM, Sigcomm, SCS, GI (German Informatics Society) and GI/ITG-Fachgruppe KuVS (also serving as elected member of the KuVS Steering Committee). His research activities are focused on (but not limited to) engineering of networking protocols, implementation techniques for protocols, formal description techniques for protocols, quality of service, multicast, network simulation, peer-to-peer-networking as well as all operating system issues of networking.

Klaus is actively participating in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and successfully brought several parts of his work into the standardization process. Recently, RFC 3662 and RFC 3754 were accepted.

A small note for potential applicants

Please note: The DS Team is a very open-minded and technology-oriented research group. But, since we are receiving dozens of (mostly unserious spam) applications per week, we are only accepting applications sent in by non-electronic mail or fax (to +49 241 80 22220). eMail applications will neither be processed, answered nor accepted.

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